Gosling Claims Huge Security Hole in .NET

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 4, 2005 @12:48PM from the throwing-stones dept.

renai42 writes "Java creator James Gosling this week called Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .NET one of the 'biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made.' Gosling further commented that by including the two languages into Microsoft's software development platform, the company 'has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many large trucks through.'" Note that this isn't a particular vulnerability, just a system of typing that makes it easy to introduce vulnerabilities, which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.

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Java vs C++ by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 17:25 · Score: -1, Redundant

Java runs many times slower than C/C++. In high end applications this does make a difference, so Pat, try telling the entire Gamming industry to dump C/C++ and go for the slower Java. not gonna happen